Wigmore Hall: Jennifer Johnston

Live from London's Wigmore Hall. British mezzo-soprano and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jennifer Johnston sings Wolf, Britten and Mahler accompanied by pianist Joseph Middleton.

Wolf's settings of Goethe's poetry about the young girl Mignon occupies the first half of the concert. The sequence ending with 'Kennst du das Land' - 'Do you know the land' - Mignon's words of longing for her homeland from which she was cruelly snatched as a child. Another sort of longing ends Mahler's Ruckert Lieder as the poet of 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' yearns for withdrawal from the everyday turmoil of the world into the most meaningful aspects of his life: his heaven, his life, and his song.